Including today’s cases, the cumulative number of confirmed infections in the country totalled 1.13 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

The number of vaccine doses administered was higher than the 512,097 doses of vaccines administered on July 30, and marked the sixth consecutive day the country administered over 500,000 doses.

Terengganu recorded a sharp increase in new daily positive Covid-19 cases yesterday with 883 infections, including 860 cases of local transmission. It was the highest number since the pandemic hit.

National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme Coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said apart from scheduling an appointment time and implementing physical distancing, time spent at the vaccination centres would be cut short by speeding up the vaccination process for each recipient, which is done by introducing the digital consent form on the MySejahtera application

This is also the fourth time the daily’ Covid-19 infections cases surpassed 17,000-level for the past one week — with 17,045 on July 25 (Sunday), 17,405 on July 28 and 17,170 on July 29 (Thursday)

Minister Khairy Jamaluddin: The walk-in vaccination operation will be opened according to category on Aug 2, starting with those aged above 40 and the group with comorbidities.On Aug 5, we will open it to all aged above 18.

However, few deals have been done owing to “wide mismatch between buyer and seller expectations”.

Of the 512,097 doses of vaccines given out yesterday, 315,737 were to individuals who received their first dose, while the remainder were to 196,360 individuals who got their second jab.

The six professional bodies are the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM), the (PEPS), the Malaysian Institute of Property & Facility Managers (MIPFM), the Malaysian Institute of Professional Estate Agents & Consultants (MIPEAC), the Business Valuers Association of Malaysia (BVAM) and the Persatuan Perunding Hartanah Muslim Malaysia (PEHAM).

Health deputy director-general (research and technical support) Datuk Dr Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim: With the live streams, those who want to get the vaccine at any of the PPVs can know whether it is crowded or not…and decide if they wish to go on that day